Individuals aspiring to become insurance agents will have to write the qualifying exam on-line. The insurance regulator IRDA is set to scrap the present system of manual exams for prospective insurance agents to curb malpractices, said a senior offic ..
Trusts and institutions carrying out charitable activities will face more stringent taxation regime when the new direct taxes code comes into play from April 1, 2011. The proposed tax regime may discourage people from undertaking altruistic activitie ..
The Patna High Court on Monday directed the Begusarai DM to acquire land for an approach road to the rail-road bridge over the Ganga river between Munger and Begusarai, which is nearing completion. A division bench comprising Chief Justice P K Misra ..
A PIL has been filed at Jharkhand High Court against director general of police (DGP) V D Ram, additional director general of police (ADGP) Rajiv Kumar and a dozen others for embezzlement from the Secret Services (SS) funds. The PIL filed by advocate ..
A local court on Monday directed the police to investigate under CrPC 156 (3) the incident wherein some students of Auxilium School (Makarpura) were pulled up for putting 'mehndi' on their hands last week. According to complainant Bhavesh Ganatra, h ..
Overburdened by "heavy workload'', a trial court judge recently passed a wrong order leading to the arrest of a man who was already discharged by a sessions court in a cheating case. Litigant Hemant Kumar had thought that his 12-year-long battle ..
The two-judge bench which directed the closure of unrecognised schools in Vishakapatnam refused to budge from its stance in spite of repeated pleas from the state to reopen the schools. "The ruling of closure will be adhered to, but let the stud ..
The Madras high court has held that Dr T Chinnaraj Joseph Jayakumar, the ousted principal of The American College in Madurai, is entitled to continue in the post, and directed the higher education authorities to hand over the college administration t ..
The city-based Thiruvancore Raja Vaidhya Salai, whose founder P Vijayakumar was arrested on July 16 for cheating and breach of trust, cannot be reopened unless authentication documents issued by competent authorities are furnished, the Madras High Co ..
A petition was filed on Monday in Gujarat High Court challenging the ban by the state government on expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh's book "Jinnah-India, Partition, Independence". The petition filed by Manishi Jani, a distinguished poet a ..